· Canadian scientists spend $500 million CAD a year in publication fees.

Why do Scientists Put up with This?

· Consolidation of scientific publishing has resulted in a veritable oligopoly.

· Scientific publishers have waged a disinformation campaign that has equated for-profit, closed-access publishing with prestige and ‘trustworthy science’

· Open-access journals, like the Public Library of Science, have been attacked for publishing ‘bad science’

· Cuts to scientific funding and a lack of academic jobs have forced trainees to publish with costly, exploitive journals that are the benchmark of ‘good science’

What are the Current Battles being Waged?

· 18 European funding agencies and 2 charitable organizations have formed cOAlition S to support Plan S; a proposal to make full open-access scientific publishing a reality.

· Reed Elsevier (parent company of Elsevier) lobbies the American government to the tune of $2 million USD a year to prevent mandatory open-access publishing.

· Neither Canada or the US have endorsed Plan S.

· Although we support the reformist cOAlition S, we also recognize that in the absence of democratic scientific publishing, transnational and for-profit scientific publishers will continue exploit scientist and non-scientist labourers.

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